Epic songs that might be not considered prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

A tadge just under 10 mins, but this classic:

Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen

Sacro_Porgo wrote:

Not quite 10 minutes, but Green Day's Jesus Of Suburbia has a very low chance of being called prog on this website despite being part of a concept album and having multiple distinct movements.

That was the most epic song I knew before finding Prog Tongue

Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

BaldFriede wrote:

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

There's a lot of classic rock and jam band songs(Allman Brothers and Grateful Dead for example)that are over ten minutes long. My time of dying by Led Zeppelin is ten minutes long. I doubt many people would say that's prog. Tongue

Probably the most famous example I can think of though is "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly. It's 20 minutes long but usually considered psych and not prog(not even really proto prog imo).

"In my Time of Dying" and "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" are in my opinion full fledged prog songs.

Prob proto prog/early psych prog?

Hi,

IF we stop looking at these things as just "songs", then history shows us something else ... that some of these things were more important and valuable than we give them credit for ... and this was the case with THE DOORS.

Nowadays it's all "songs" and everything is "the same" because the folks listening do not see, or care to even understand, how valuable and important some of these things were ... I mean, Miles, these days, is FINALLY getting some of the appreciation he deserved that he was not getting then!

The problem is, that a lot of these things are NOT ... just "songs" ... but we have to bring it down to the valueless (and clue-less) area of "songs" where everything has to be the same ... and a lot of these things ARE NOT THE SAME, and never were intended to be! In many cases, the idea was TO BE DIFFERENT ... but in a "song" like format/idea, this can not happen and it is not, in the minds of many folks!

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Sagichim wrote:

I can add one of my favorite 20 minute epics, Everything Under The Sun by Extreme.

Prog-jester wrote:

Cristi wrote:

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yep but they were never prog

kinda are, because they experimented sometimes, especially in the 90s, went beyond the verse chorus verse, rely on atmosphere.

The Dark Elf wrote:

Not quite 10 minutes, but my go-to for these prog/not prog conversations:

From the same band...

Early Alice is great..

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet - Telegraph Road is quite a progressive song, at about 14 minutes. Correct me if it's been mentioned already.

Tunnel of Love is quite progressive too.

Sacro_Porgo wrote:

iluvmarillion wrote:

SteveG wrote:

Layla with it's tacked on piano coda?

Not sure whether I agree with you being "tacked on". To me it's the perfect finish to the song.

I think the coda is actually longer than the first part of the song, makes one wonder if the searing riffs and vocals at the beginning weren't the part that got "tacked on." lol

Ha, ha. I think you're right. Someone thought it was a good idea to get the piano out and used the excuse of the guitar riffs and vocals to do it.

BaldFriede wrote:

Then there's the White Trash version...a 17 minute long epic with one of the great vocals of all time from Edgar Winter. What a set of lungs, and one helluva of horn section:

Edited by The Dark Elf - July 01 2020 at 21:18

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How about Soft Machine? Out-Bloody-Rageous?